Breakfast Club Essay

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Sarah Heins Psy 341 Thad Warren 8 November 2011 Movie Analysis In The Breakfast Club, Brian, Andrew, John, Claire, and Allison exemplify many characteristics present in groups. As this was an optimal group size of five, these group dynamics were especially identifiable as this group spent a whole day together in a confined space. What made the dynamics in this group particularly interesting was that it was a casual/social group, except that this social group deviated from each individual’s normal social group. These relationships formed that day were short-lived (even though Claire gave Bender her earring at the end of the movie, I do believe that these relationships lasted, at the very most, a week). Either Brian or Andrew (I don’t remember which) asked the group what they were going to do when it came to be Monday. The consensus was that, basically, nothing would change between them. There group was that short-lived. However, the impact that these relationships had on group behavior during this one-day period was quite profound. Brian pretended that he wasn’t a virgin to impress Bender. During the circle time, Claire freaked out with the group’s perception of her. Throughout the movie, Bender acted nothing less than the “bad-boy” perception he so desires to give off. One of the main struggles during the course of this movie, besides a struggle for power and leadership, was a struggle to give off a good impression to the others in the group. Not only did the five students struggle for power, but they and the principle and the janitor were in a changing and dynamic situation where power shifted among all involved. At first, the principle had coercive power because he had the ability to assign more detentions. He did indeed exercise this power over Bender as his number of detentions exponentially grew over a matter of minutes, but the second that Bender

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